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Omegaslast posted:You and me are a like because we have some pretty great speakers being driven by lovely components. XR-57 is typically a bright receiver and you got it hooked up to focals?? is the beryllium tweeter shrill as hell or does it still sound good? My (Chorus line) speaker's tweeters are an aluminum/magnesium alloy. The Utopia line uses a beryllium tweeter, maybe that's what you're thinking of? It's funny you mention Rotel...go read this: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=600778 Anyway I love the way my speakers sound. My components (especially the receiver) aren't lovely, I'd say they're very well-matched to each other in terms of the price point. I'm not sure I'd go so far as to drive a pair of B&W 802Ds with my receiver, but considering my fronts were only $700 for the pair I think I'm getting the most I can out of them. The grills are just black plastic things with some sort of thin foam cover...I took them off because I like looking at my speakers.
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jhcain posted:Ohh, AV setups. You didn't include what any of that is either. 
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Mar 21, 2007 03:48
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luigionlsd posted:For what it's worth, the CRT cost less than my 360 itself (not including the HD add-on). It's a wonderful TV, and it supports 480i/480p/1080i natively (and accepts 720p signals, and converts them to 1080i). Wonderful TV for the price, but it is a CRT which people seem to think are so last year. I watched half of Superman Returns on HD at my friend's place (56" Sammy DLP), and the other half on my setup. The colors on the DLP were terrible (although his TV is not calibrated in any way), very muddy blacks, not very vibrant at all. There's no substitute for a nice CRT, in an age of flat panel units. If anyone's interested in the TV, it's available at Philips' outlet page for $300 + tax (free shipping last I saw). Only downside is no ATSC tuner, which is available in a model which is essentially the same, but $100 more. You realize that both HD DVD and Blu-ray are 1080p, right? Which is a higher resolution (1920x1080) than your TV supports? Granted, your TV's resolution is higher than that of a normal DVD so the HD DVDs ought to look better, assuming a good transfer and all that.
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Mar 24, 2007 15:52
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Amaritudo posted:1080i and 1080p are the same resolution just different display methods. Slow-moving and still objects appear identical between the two. It's fast-motion where 1080i can possibly suffer. The truth is you need a big screen to be able to tell the difference between the two and on his 30" screen, 1080p would just be a waste of money. http://www.hometheatermag.com/gearworks/1106gear/ That's only true for movies, according to this link, because movies are encoded at 24 fps. They're most definitely not the same if you're giving them a 60hz 1920x1080 signal (such as from a computer). You're right he wouldn't notice a difference though...didn't know about the 24fps thing until now.
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Mar 24, 2007 16:09
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giundy posted:Move the freaking book cases and are you asian? Get rid of the tacky poo poo asap. Judging by the photos on the table he's black. I guess tackiness is colorblind.  I like the dining room table, although I'm not sure why there's a picture of it in this thread. Or 4 pictures of the exact same view of his TV, just with different images on the TV.  edit: actually I guess it's more like 10 pictures of the TV. It's consistent with the way the room is decorated, I guess. King Nothing fucked around with this message at 06:53 on Jan 21, 2008 |
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Jan 21, 2008 06:50
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.Nathan. posted:RF. Which isn't much of a reason, unless your components are going to be in a closet or behind/to the side of you. I just ordered an 880 myself. One other benefit of going with an RF remote is you don't have to keep the remote pointed at the components for a couple seconds while it goes through a script for turning everything on and changing settings. I say that's what couch arms were made for, but whatever.
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Jan 27, 2008 00:50
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Don Lapre posted:circuitcity also has the 880 for $150 right now, but only till the end of the day probably. It's $150 at Amazon all the time and there's a 10% rebate available from Logitech.
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Jan 27, 2008 05:26
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.Nathan. posted:Everything from the 880 on up comes with a nice Li-ion battery and a dock for recharging the remote. This is why I got the 880, one of my coworkers has a model without rechargeable batteries and he says he has to change batteries once a week. I guess if you already have rechargeable batteries it's not too big a deal, but I don't so an integrated system was worth it to me.
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Fatty_McLumpkin posted:Sorry, 64" AFF is basically the standard in the AV world for mounting TV's Interesting...when I mounted my TV several of my friends thought it was mounted too high but I thought it looked right. I just checked and the center of the mount is almost exactly 64" above the floor.  Click here for the full 1024x768 image. Focal fronts and center channel, Essex SW2 sub, Panasonic XR-57 receiver, Vizio 32" LCD. Not pictured (since they were purchased after the picture) is my Wii and Mac Mini that I use as a HTPC. King Nothing fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Aug 17, 2008 |
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